Evocation

James Baldwin wrote, “This is the only real concern of the artist, to recreate out of the disorder of life the order which is art.” He does create art out of the disorder of life in his short story “Sonny’s Blues.” The stories main themes are suffering, racism, and artistic expression. The suffering of Sonny who was addicted to drugs, and feels like his brother does not understand him. The suffering of black people in America because of racism, and how creating art is an outlet to take anguish…

Black Lives Matter is making a difference because of the new possibilities that social media offer. In the short span of a year, they moved from demonstrations to policy proposals: Campaign Zero, a movement offshoot, has put forth a comprehensive set of recommendations for potential remedies, and activists recently met with Democratic presidential candidates. This is possibly a tipping-point moment in terms of addressing killings by police. In terms of how social history happens, there is an…

straightforward narrative about rural American. It’s an atmospheric exploration of hope, nostalgia, and a desperate yearning for the unattainable. It is simultaneously comforting in its familiarity, heartbreaking in its inevitability, and haunting in its evocations. Nadzam’s painterly prose reveals a land that is starkly beautiful, infused with light and color, as magical as it is disturbing. Lions is a place that, if you’re at all familiar with rural America, you’ve likely encountered: a bar, a…

We chose motivational interviewing. Motivational Interviewing is an approach that works on promoting and engaging essential motivation within the client in order to change behavior.[citation needed] MI is a goal-oriented, client-centered counseling style for invoking behavior change by helping clients to explore and resolve ambivalence. In comparison with non-directive counseling, it's more focused and goal-directed. It goes away from traditional client-centered therapy through this use of…

The embodiment of social discord, Vittoria acts as a catalyst and source of conflict between competing discourses of morality, yet does not centre in her own tragedy. She states ‘I scorn to hold my life/ At yours or any man’s entreaty’; having had to use her sexuality for social mobility, she abhors the idea of her existence continuing to be dependent on men. She has suffered at the actions of men such as Bracciano who promised to ‘seat [her] above law and above scandal.’ The assumption he is…

The more rappers were packaged as violent black criminals the bigger their white audience become...Rap’s appeal to whites rested in evocation of age-old image of blackness: A foreign, sexually changed, and criminal underworld against which the norms of white society are defined, and, by extension, through which they may be defied. (Lee LaGrone) As David Samuels explains, whites look at…

Jean Piaget was known to be one of the most influential researchers in the area of early childhood education and developmental psychology. Around the year 1920, Piaget developed his first cognitive theory using the observation of children. He believed that children and adults think differently. He stated that “thinking develops sequentially through a series of stages, and that cognitive development depends on a child’s actual concrete experiences” (Early Literacy Handout, 2015). Therefore, he…

moving towards religious art that appealed to the large range of human emotion and feeling. The Baroque sculpture The Ecstasy of St. Teresa (http://www.artchive.com/artchive/B/bernini.html) by Gianlorenzo Bernini is an example of the new emotional evocations through the art which was inspired by one of passages written by the catholic St. Teresa Avila when she was very involved with the Jewish Kabbalah tradition. She spoke of the vision she had of the love of God appearing to her in the form…

Chapter Three The symbolism of animal farm The word “symbolism” is derived from the word “symbol”, which refers to the use of symbols, or a set of related symbols (Baldick 2000: 219). Symbolism can therefore be defined as the art of expressing ideas and emotions not by describing them directly, nor by defining them through overt comparisons with concrete images, but re-creating them in the mind of the reader through the use of unexplained symbols. (Chadwick 1971: 6) Symbolism is a kind of…

Heather Ostman’s article “The Sun Also Rises” from the Encyclopedia of the American Novel begins with an explanation of the book’s title. The Sun also Rises gets its name from Ecclesiastes, which is also quoted at the beginning of the book along with a quote from Gertrude Stein about the Lost Generation. Ostman notes that the connection of Ecclesiastes hopefulness with Stein’s hopelessness sustain the feeling of meaninglessness and alienation of the characters of the book following the Great War…